For many people, food allergy is something that belongs to childhood. Patients often assume that if they have eaten shrimp, peanuts, tree nuts or other foods safely for decades, they have somehow ...

Scientists just gene-edited an allergy-free dog. Before you celebrate — or spend a dime — here's what nobody's telling you.

If you’re quirking an eyebrow at the idea of a poo transfer as a legitimate medical treatment — or just going “ew” — you’re ...

Oral fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) can increase the allergic threshold in some adults with peanut allergy, based on results of a phase 1 trial. Six of 15 highly peanut-allergic adults responded to ...

A single course of capsules containing gut microbes from healthy donors raised the amount of peanut protein that six people ...

The parent of children with severe food allergies has said discovering oral immunotherapy treatment has been "life changing" ...

Peanut allergies might be treatable by using a fecal transplant to introduce “good” bacteria into a person’s digestive tract, ...

Some 33 million Americans have severe food allergies. Now, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital may have found a ...

Some 33 million Americans have severe food allergies. Now, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital may have found a ...

Sixteen-year-old Julian, who received the experimental treatment, which exposes those with dairy allergies to micro-metered ...

Abigail Stein found lunch hours to be the most stressful part of the day. For the 13-year-old, it wasn’t just school politics ...

When your child has a peanut allergy, you‘re used to being diligent around grocery shopping, keeping medications handy, and having their health provider‘s number available — but what about when you‘re ...